From: David D'Andrea <ddandrea@...>
Date: 2003-06-23T23:12:01+09:00
Subject: Newbie dbi install problem

Hello everyone;

I'm just starting out, reading the pickaxe, this forum, and trying to 
get a handle on OOP/design patterns.  I'm hoping to use Ruby for 
database applications, as I've been going crazy with unstructured code 
in FileMaker (!!!).

I've just installed dbi (this on OS X):

[Chiclet:~/Desktop] davidd% tar -xzvf ruby-dbi-all-0.0.20.tar.gz
[Chiclet:~/Desktop] davidd% cd ruby-dbi-all
[Chiclet:~/Desktop/ruby-dbi-all] davidd% ruby setup.rb config 
--with=dbi,dbd_mysql
(setup fails if I don't specify --with, I suppose because of missing 
modules???)
[Chiclet:~/Desktop/ruby-dbi-all] davidd% ruby setup.rb setup
[Chiclet:~/Desktop/ruby-dbi-all] davidd% sudo ruby setup.rb install
(used sudo because otherwise got permission errors)

but the test script from Paul DuBois' tutorial 
(http://www.kitebird.com/articles/ruby-dbi.html) doesn't execute 
correctly:

[Chiclet:~/Rubydev/dbi] davidd% ruby simple.rb
/sw/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/dbi/dbi.rb:502:in `load_driver': Could not 
load driver (undefined method `Driver' for nil) (DBI::InterfaceError)
         from /sw/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/dbi/dbi.rb:392:in 
`_get_full_driver'
         from /sw/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/dbi/dbi.rb:372:in `connect'
         from simple.rb:7

MySQL itself (Ver 3.23.52-entropy.ch) seems to be fine, I've created 
appropriate user...

Any clues for the clueless would be greatly appreciated!

David